Defender of the Crown

It was on the Amiga.

That was my favourite game at the time and the whole reason I bought an Amiga. The graphics and sound were amazing for the time and the gameplay was too.

Compared to now, the gameplay is a bit simplistic. Lords of the Realm is a similar takes it a lot deeper but just isn't fun because the AI is too stupid.

Just thinking of a remake of Defender of the Crown has me drooling.

I'd love to, but I just have the original Playstation. I've been considering getting an xbox. I try to avoid buying anything from Sony because of the way they cripple a lot of their AV hardware to satisfy their media arm.

I did buy the PSX specifically because I wanted Soul Blade, so one good game is enough reason to buy the console for me :). Soul Calibur 2 is the reason I'm looking at xboxes, and there is a version for the PS2.

I just hope it feels like the original but in a modernized way. If I went back and played the old version I'd just laugh at myself for thinking it was such a great game and I'd destroy the memory. Yet the part of me that remembers it nostalgicly wants to say it doesn't need improvement.

Anyway, thanks for letting me know it exists...It just went to the top of my wishlist. :)

With the PSX, it was the decision of no console vs the PSX. I spent more playing Soul Edge on the arcade machine than the PSX game cost, and probably enough to have made a pretty big dent in the PSX console as well. I was seriously looking into buying the arcade machine when I found out there was a PSX version :).

It was also the only arcade machine I was ever good at. I was practicing hard combinations on the easier levels, so it looked like I wasn't doing that well and some arcade punk came in and challenged me for the machine. I won so fast he was in shock and played (and lost) to me 4 times before he gave up. I'm not really an arcade/console gamer, so I usually can't beat anyone at them. For me that was a great feeling :).

I never did find another game for the PSX that was worth buying at full price, and since I had the machine at school (in an apartment with 3 people and 3 PSX's), I tried close to 100 games. There were a few others worth getting as greatest hits.

That's why that first game is so important in my decision. There are so few console games I consider worth buying. I would probably get the newest crash bandicoot game if I got a new console. I thought Crash was the PSX mascot, but I've only seen it for xbox.

Besides the fact that Xbox is most similar to a PC in hardware, why is that an issue? It acts like a console? My problem with PC games is they just don't seem to work. Except for the Warcraft/Starcraft games, I can't remember the last game I could finish, they all seem to have some point where they crash every time. Console games don't seem to have that problem.

It's funny that I know so few people who have heard of the game, but everyone who has loved it.

I've never played Axis and Allies so I don't know how to answer your direct question, but I think DoC could easily be ported to a board game. As you said, combat was fairly simple, a boardgame could handle the level of complexity. It would need more options for strategy though, iirc the original game didn't need much thinking.

Jason

Okay, I downloaded the 170 meg demo of the PC version and I was very disappointed.

The main issued seemd to be the lag, it took about 1 second between moving the mouse, pressing a button, or entering a key on the keyboard for the effect to show up on the screen. When trying to aim the bow and fire and a moving target, that makes it almost impossible to play. My hardware should be enough to handle the demo; it's several times faster than the system requirements.

I was dumped into the scene where I'm supposed to ambush a caravan with no idea what was going on. I managed to hit one of the soldiers through pure luck (because of the lagged controls) while it was going by and then nothing happened. I was just sitting in the tree over the bridge with nothing going on. After about 10 minutes I gave up and quit the game.

Jason

I think that goes more in line that PC games just never seem to work right. A big advantage with the consoles is everybody has the same hardware so it's less likely that something unexpected will happen that the developer didn't account for.

The lag is probably because of some piece of hardware or software I have that the game didn't get along with. I'm kind of curious where the game was supposed to go from the ambush and why it didn't happen.

Jason

Cinemaware did release a pretty "straight" rerelease of the original game too (with spruced up graphics) although that might incredibly difficult to track down (although, cough, the Underdogs have the original EGA version listed.)